People Directory

Neven Lochhead is an artist, filmmaker, curator, educator and PhD candidate in the Screen Cultures and Curatorial studies program. His research and theoretical writing examine the relation between art and knowledge, the open possibilities of curatorial education, and artist-led pedagogy and workshops.

Nicola is an MA student in the Film and Media department at Queen’s. Following the completion of a BA in Film and Media, Nicola gained experience through various associate producing roles. Her current research focuses on the use and preservation of archival footage, reflecting a strong interest in film history and media preservation.

Peggy is an animator, illustrator, and teaching artist.  After studying digital design at Pratt Institute, she gained professional experience in post-production, creating animation and special effects for film and television. An interest in film and video festivals led to a position in the education department at The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. She has training in a variety of museum pedagogies and has created accessible experiences with art & media for all ages and abilities.

Between joining the Department of Film Studies in 1976, and retiring from what had become the Department of Film and Media in 2013, I taught courses at every undergraduate level from first to fourth year. Whether it was our introductory course, FILM 110, or courses in film criticism or theory, I always brought a historical perspective to the subject at hand.

In his research, Philippe explores complex narratives in popular media franchises; revisits transmedia storytelling and social media through concepts such as interface, playfulness and immersion; and thinks a lot about animation, seriality and popular culture.

Dr Qanita Lilla is a South African curator, researcher and writer with a PhD in Visual Arts from Stellenbosch University. She is currently Associate Curator, Arts of Africa at Agnes Etherington Art Center, Queens University situated on Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee Territory. At Agnes, Qanita cares for the Lang Collection of African Art, one of the largest collections of its kind in Canada. She is interested the life and after-life of objects in collections, representations of racialised minorities and depictions of traumatic histories. Qanita is the curator of With Opened Mouths and the associated podcast. She has published in various peer-reviewed publications and has also contributed book chapters to anthologies.

Ryan Randall is the Senior Technician and Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Film & Media as well as the Technical Director of the Vulnerable Media Lab and an award winning cinematographer.

Sam Sunwoo is a producer and interdisciplinary artist with over six years of experience in South Korea’s animation industry. She has produced award-winning, internationally recognized animated series. Her current interest lies in working across various media such as VR, motion graphics, and exhibitions, with a focus on interactive storytelling.

After completing my PhD in Communications at McGill University, I went to Scotland to undertake a post-doctoral fellowship on minor national cinemas at the University of Glasgow. Before coming to Queen’s, I taught at universities in the UK and Canada. At Queen’s, I have taught courses on Classical Hollywood cinemas; Arctic transnational cinemas; transnational European cinemas; film manifestos; film and media theory; Culture and Technology; and popular music and cultural studies, among others.

Sojung Bahng is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker and researcher. She is an Assistant Professor in Media and Performance Production in the Department of Film and Media and the DAN School of Drama and Music at Queen’s University in Canada. Her main research interest lies in practice-based research and research-creation in the context of cinematic and digital media storytelling. Sojung has been exploring the creation of new artistic and narrative experiences by combining various digital technologies in cultural and philosophical contexts. Her research is multidisciplinary and collaborative; it combines various disciplines, including film & media studies, visual art, philosophy and human-computer interaction (HCI). Sojung holds a PhD from SensiLab in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University in Australia, and her doctoral thesis Cinematic VR as a reflexive tool beyond empathy was awarded the 2020 Mollie Holman award for the best thesis of the year. She graduated from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) with a master’s degree in Culture Technology and holds a BFA from Korea National University of Arts (K-Arts), majoring in TV & Film Production and Art Theory.

Research Interest:  Digital Storytelling, Cinematic Virtual Reality, New Media Narrative & Aesthetics, Multidisciplinary Art, Practice-based Research, Research-Creation

Steve Bates is an artist and musician. Through his work he listens to thresholds, boundaries and borders, points of contact and conflict. The history of ideas, experiences, and materials are an influence on his work and often lead to a research-heavy path resulting in a suite of works around a theme. Recent topics have included the history of barbed wire as colonizing device, the night as a space of freedom and libidinal desire, feedback as it occurs in sound and video art, politics, economics, and biology, historical and contemporary instances of pathological and non-pathological auditory hallucination and most recently, a speculative project around the sound of Hell. His work has been exhibited and performed in Canada, the United States of America, Europe, Chile and Senegal. He works in the field, on the air, in museological/gallery and performance contexts. These shifting territories reflect the content of his practice. 

Areas of research interest include contemporary art and aesthetic theory, research-creation, experimental media, installation, social practice and performance art, curatorial practice/studies, institutional critique and visual and popular cultures. Supervisory fields are curatorial practice/studies and contemporary art.

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Cinema and media arts areas include gendered spaces and the city, women’s and Canadian cinemas,  and Cuban cinema and visual culture; decolonial practice; media archives and their remediation, social ecology of vulnerable media, collectives and collections; curatorial projects; media arts artists’ groups and artist-run centres.

Tamara de Szegheo Lang (she/her) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media. Her research takes up queer history, community-based archives, visual culture, and the affective relationships between LGBT2Q+ people and the past.

The research projects Tamara is currently involved with include: Bodies on Fire: Rekindling the Lesbian Decade in Canadian Film,1990-1999; The Witch Institute: Harnessing the Cultural Power of the Witch for Decolonial, Feminist Futures; and Under the Shadow of Empire: Minor Archives and Radical Media Distribution in the Americas.

Tamara is interested in supervising in the following areas: historical and contemporary film and media; marginalized and activist (feminist, racialized, Indigenous, queer and trans) screen cultures; archive studies, preservation, and archival films; affect theory; and curatorial studies.

Thea Fitz-James is a theatre academic and practitioner. She holds a PhD in Performance Studies from York University and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Queen’s University, teaching theatre theory, theatre administration, fringe theatre, performance art, and performance studies. Her current creative and academic work looks at Fringe Theatre, concepts of play in creative research, and the materiality of the body in performance. She’s developed two solo shows deconstructing contemporary feminist stereotypes, which have toured the Fringe circuit internationally. She is a white, queer, ‘Mad’, cis-gendered settler.

Tyler Adair was an MA student in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies. He previously completed an MA in Comparative Literature at Brock University where he also received his undergraduate degree in Art History and Film Studies. He is interested in film theory, modern art (especially painting), Marxism, and curatorial studies, and is currently researching the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet.

Vince Ha is a PhD candidate in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies at Queen’s University. His research centers on two core themes: diasporic identities and queer archival methods. Currently, he is investigating transnational media and its impact on queer diasporic sociality, with special attention to homoerotic representation in Asian cinema

Her research interests center on the politics of visuality (including cinema, television, video, and other new media/art forms), critical media infrastructure, and environmental media. She examines media’s textual, material, and socio-political dynamics mainly through China's situated experience but gradually expands to explore the trans-regional linkages across Asia. Her current book project, Frontier Vision: The Geopolitics of Seeing China’s Borderlands, examines how China’s geopolitical aspirations have been hyper-mediated and entangled with the logic of frontier-making between the mid-twentieth century and the present. This book offers a transhistorical view of the visual regimes that recalibrate natural environments and their political promises through geological extraction, televisual mediation of hydropower, and maritime signal sovereignty. Her book project was also supported by the Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies (2024-2025) from the American Council of Learned Societies.

William Jennings is a PhD student in the Film and Media department. He holds an MA in Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies from Queen's University, and a BA in Art History and Visual Studies from the University of Victoria. Interests include slow cinema, continental philosophy, memory, materiality, and new media. Not to be confused with the 41st US Secretary of State.

After graduating from Queen's University with an Undergraduate degree in Film and Media, Xiao Lin has transitioned into the Screen Cultures and Curatorial Studies MA program. Her research interests include feminist, queer theory, and narrative production.